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...Ludwig von Pufendorf, director of the Bruecke Museum Foundation in Berlin, was blunt. Kirchner's "Berlin Street Scene" had been the centerpiece of his museum's collection for 26 years; now a poster of the painting hangs in its place. Following a claim initiated by a U.S. lawyer and a decision by the Berlin state government, the Bruecke museum last August handed it over to a London woman, Anita Halpin, the granddaughter of a German shoe manufacturer. Von Pufendorf argues that the painting should never have been restituted. He said it was sold in Germany in 1933, at which point...
...business. It has nothing to do with moral restitution," said Von Pufendorf, a lawyer. "The money has become more important than justice. The idea of restitution is correct, but it needs to be more just and less arbitrary." Von Pufendorf is demanding an independent investigation into the decision to hand over the painting. Both the "Berlin Street Scene" and Klimt's "Golden Adele" were bought by Ronald Lauder for his Neue Gallerie in New York. Several Klimts sold by Christies earlier this month also disappeared into private collections...
Philadelphia is famed for dead heroes, delicate food and municipal mismanagement. Last week it got a new dead hero and a new delicacy. The hero: Samuel von Pufendorf. The delicacy: Bologna. The municipal mismanagement was still right there...
...select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
Baron Samuel von Pufendorf, a German lawyer who died in 1694, had once made a pointed citation from the laws of Bologna that the rule "whoever drew blood in the streets should be punished with the utmost severity" should not extend to the surgeon "who opened the veins of a person that fell down in the street...
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